Baroquemania explores the intersections of art, architecture and criticism to show how reimagining the Baroque helped craft a distinctively Italian approach to modern art. Offering a bold reassessment of post-unification visual culture, the book examines a wide variety of media …
Unprecedented in its in-depth coverage, and with over 500 illustrations, photographs, and architectural drawings the multi-volume Companion to the History of Architecture offers an indispensable resource on architectural thought and practice ranging from the 15th century to the …
by Lipszyc, Adam, Benjamin, Walter, Kopacki, Andrzej
fromKroki / Schritte
"Our analysis shall focus on the music of Polish composers of the baroque period, i.e. from the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth century."--Page 45. "This book looks at the rich means of text interpretation in seventeenth and eighteenth century Polish music, a relat…
"David MacFadyen's comprehensive examination of Joseph Brodsky's poetry and prose redefines his relevance not only in regard to the recent past, with an overview of some problems of post-Soviet aesthetics, but also with regard to the future, since the assessment of the poet's We…
This work argues that 17th-century baroque and 20th-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The author explores expressions of this problem in the art and literature of the Hispanic baroques, new and old.
Introduction : the baroque as a problem of thought -- Of baroque holes and baroque folds -- How to build a baroque house (Cervantes, master architect) -- The theater of truth -- The opacity of language and the transparency of being : on Góngora's poetics -- The corporeal image a…
Introduction: a taste for the macabre in the age of curiosities -- Miscellanea: the garden of curiosities and macabre theater -- Sins of our fathers (and spouses): the preternatural in baroque exemplary tales -- Zayas' bodyworks: protogothic moral pornography or a baroque trap f…
"Baroque Horrors turns the current cultural and political conversation from the familiar narrative patterns and self-justifying allegories of abjection to a dialogue on the history of our modern fears and their monstrous offspring. When life and death are severed from nature and…
Beginning in the 1580s and ending as late as 1750 in some Northern European regions, the Baroque artistic era began as an artistic recoil to the stylizations of Mannerist art and as a means of implementation of the demands of the Counter-Reformation Church that sought to restore…
